The Modern Traveller, Hilaire Belloc In the war with the Zulu people of South Africa in 1879, the British suffered a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, but went on to win the war.

King Goodwill Zwelithini, the leader of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died at ... the leader of the Zulu nation during the 1879 war against the British army. Throughout his half-century ...

The last Boer guerillas surrendered in May 1902. The British kept South Africa, but the war had been a debacle. For English Canada, the war was viewed as the country's initiation on the world stage.